Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/03/31/16:59:26
Hi,
Yep that fixes me. Thanks Igor. Odd that the open() succeeds for
\\.\PhysicalDrive0. _shrug_. I'll gladly use /dev/sda.
-Mike
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 04:18:49PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> Mike,
>
> FYI, the following works just fine on my system (Win2k, Cygwin 1.5.9, 11G
> harddrive):
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <fcntl.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
>
> #define BYTE (sizeof(unsigned char))
> #define KB (1024 * BYTE)
> #define MB (1024 * KB)
> #define GB (1024 * MB)
>
> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
> int fd;
> off_t maxblock;
> if ((fd = open("/dev/sda", O_RDONLY)) < 0) {
> perror("open failed"); exit(2);
> }
> if ((maxblock = lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END)) == (off_t) -1) {
> perror("lseek failed"); exit(3);
> }
> printf("%llub, %lluKb, %lluMb, %lluGb in /dev/sda\n", maxblock,
> maxblock / KB, maxblock / MB, maxblock / GB);
> close(fd);
> return 0;
> }
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> If I replace "/dev/sda" by "\\\\.\\PhysicalDrive0" everywhere, however, I
> get the same result you do. Food for thought.
> HTH,
> Igor
>
> On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Mike Brown wrote:
>
> > Hi Igor,
> >
> > Yes the a.out a.exe thing is a typo. I've read the page on special
> > filenames. You can use the POSIX names or you can open the Windows
> > device namespace name. Either way, my problem isn't with opening and
> > reading from the disk device. That works fine. My problem is with
> > lseek() not being able to seek past the 4Gb boundary.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 02:14:18PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > > On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Mike Brown wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > cygwin 1.5.9-1 on Windows XP Service Pack 1.
> > > >
> > > > I need 64-bit versions of lseek() and friends. No prototype exists for
> > > > lseek64(). I've searched the archives on the list and many claim that
> > > > 64-bit support is "automatic" and lseek() resolves at compile time to
> > > > lseek64(). This isn't happening for me. Is there a compile time
> > > > define I need to make this happen?
> > > >
> > > > [snip]
> > > > Here's a simple example app I'm using. I run via: a.out PhysicalDrive0
> > >
> > > Michael,
> > >
> > > I don't know if it's related to the problem you're having, but I'm sure
> > > you've read <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html>,
> > > right? Try compiling a Linux version with "#define lseek64 lseek", and
> > > use ./a.exe /dev/sda (note that Cygwin gcc produces a.exe, not a.out, by
> > > default, so I assume the above is a typo or the result of an explicit "-o"
> > > flag).
> > > Igor
> > >
> > > > -----------------------
> > > > /* #define LINUX */
> > > > #define WIN32
> > > >
> > > > [snip]
> > > > #ifdef WIN32
> > > > /* automatically add the \\.\ crap in front */
> > > > sprintf(filename, "\\\\.\\%s", argv[1]);
> > > > #else
> > > > sprintf(filename, "%s", argv[1]);
> > > > #endif
> > > > [snip]
> > > > #ifdef WIN32
> > > > maxblock = lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END);
> > > > #else
> > > > maxblock = lseek64(fd, 0, SEEK_END);
> > > > #endif
>
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